The COVID-19 pandemic generated diverse impacts and responses in agricultural value chains worldwide. Cocoa is a key … severity of impacts and responses implemented by two links in the cocoa value chain to the pandemic, based on a survey of 158 … cocoa farmers and 52 cocoa intermediaries from the main cocoa-producing provinces of the northern coast of Ecuador in 2021 …

Most cocoa is grown by smallholder farmers whose livelihoods depend largely on the income from cocoa. Today, cocoa … cocoa is growing steadily. There is, however, insufficient information available on whether the sourced cocoa is produced … under gender-equitable conditions. We address this by examining two cocoa supply chains using our own sex …

stakeholders of the cocoa agroindustrial chain, during the implementation of the "Cocoa Bioplant", in the state of Bahia, Brazil …. The Cocoa Bioplant is the first unit, in the world, to propagate special genetic material for cocoa farming on a … industrial scale. It also figures as a strategic piece for the competitive reestructuration of this agribusiness. To explain this …